Energy is growing around complex care and the potential it has to help the individuals currently falling through the cracks of our healthcare system. But like any new field of care, there are questions around direction, priorities, and clarification of shared language. What are the core tenets of the field of complex care? What are the […]
Last week, the National Center for Complex Health and Social Needs welcomed over 600 innovators from across the country to sunny Los Angeles for the second annual Putting Care at the Center conference. Consumers, providers, administrators, researchers, policymakers, and many others joined the National Center and conference co-host Kaiser Permanente to help coalesce the movement […]
At the National Center, we know that providing better care for people with complex health and social needs requires providers to radically change how they deliver care. Complex care requires providers to work in interdisciplinary teams, to visit people in their homes, and to use tools and techniques like motivational interviewing, harm reduction, and trauma-informed […]
The National Governors Association’s (NGA) Center for Best Practices has worked closely over the past few years with the Camden Coalition to develop a Complex Care Policy Academy to provide resources for states that want to improve their health care systems for people with complex health and social needs. The second Complex Care Policy Academy […]
Putting Care at the Center, the inaugural conference of the National Center for Complex Health and Social Needs, drew almost 500 stakeholders from across the country— including health care providers, consumers, administrators, researchers, and policymakers— to Philadelphia last week. Declaring their independence from a fragmented health care system that fails the most vulnerable, attendees participated […]